You really think there are countries which are more corrupt then the US government?

Sound like a real politician and a real good one.

The best interest of the shareholders is not always ROI in terms of money. Par example think of continuity which is far more important then short term profits.

Installing everything in one huge server running virtual servers should make it easier by creating virtual network segments. And even with such segments it is questionable if the potential damage in one segment is not a reason to whitelist within each networksegment too.

A significant number of professional politicians (and lawyers) are also liars.

Any linuxdistro does have several mailservers to choose from which can be combined with Roundcube webmail.

I suppose cheese brine uses consumergrade salt while a mixture of rock salt and brine has been known as de-icing method for quite a while now.

This is really about old news. Who cares about the state of Linux embedded of 2012 or 1999? Show me current state for 2014 that would be interesting.

That is a part of the problem according to this article on Slashdot: physicist Peter Higgs: No University Would Employ Me Today. Only projects that promises short term gains are well funded.

VNC is terrible on both LAN and WAN but SPICE is a lot better and on par with RDP in my experience. And imo there are plenty opportunities to improve both but it is hard work and not many interested.

Apparently not! The masses are moving to casual gaming on tablets (p.e. Angry birds as best known casual game) and indeed consoles. But consoles have to do it for a longer period of time with the same hardware and are not reaily well suited for the next AAA game to be released in 3 or 4 years from now.

Welcome to reality. USA: the land of the great bastards also called U.S. government.

Iraq having weapons of mass destruction, which were never there.